Thursday, January 30, 2014

Half a Wing: Better Than No Wing

Darwin was right (that saltation would disprove his theory) and Gould was wrong: half a wing IS better than no wing at all. If squirrels don't convince you, how about snakes? I'm just glad I won't be around in a few 10s of millions of years when these nasty characters can fly for real.

Words to Live By

"...there is good and bad speculation, and this is not an unparalleled activity in science...Those scientists who have no taste for this sort of speculative enterprise will just have to stay in the trenches and do without it, while the rest of us risk embarrassing mistakes and have a lot of fun." - Dan Dennett